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  • Rethinking Digital Literacy

    by Guy Merchant ...
    Series series Rethinking Education series
    Applying novel theoretical perspectives to key current topics, this book aims to rethink and redefine our understanding of digital literacy. Guy Merchant underscores the pressing need to look critically at the impacts and complexities of new aspects of digital communication as it has become increasingly significant in modern life.In this cutting-edge book, Merchant explores how digital literacy ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Why Writing Still Matters

    Written Communication in Changing Times

    by Guy Merchant ...
    Writing surrounds us, it informs us, it guides us, and it controls us. The power and complexity of this exceptional human invention is a story of change. However, in today's digital world, technology has drastically altered how and where we write, what we write about, and what writing looks like. This fascinating book presents a compelling argument for the vital importance of writing, and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Stacking stories

    Exploring the hinterland of education

    by Emma Rogers, Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett, Jeannie Bulman ...
    What happens when a small group of educators get together? What could they do, what could they make, what could they become? Not necessarily what you might think. This book describes an alternate journey, one that departs from the busy traffic of goal-oriented projects, over-determined aims, and the doorstep delivery of interventions in order to wander reflectively across a more expansive ... Read more

    $59.29 USD

  • New Literacies around the Globe

    Policy and Pedagogy

    Edited by Cathy Burnett, Julia Davies, Guy Merchant, Jennifer Rowsell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Literacy
    The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments. As a result, teachers are caught between two competing discourses: ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Case of the iPad

    Mobile Literacies in Education

    Edited by Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant, Alyson Simpson, Maureen Walsh ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings. Approaching mobility from diverse theoretical perspectives, the book makes a significant contribution to how mobile literacies, and tablets in particular, are being conceptualised in literacy research. The book focuses on tablets, and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Literacy, Media, Technology

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Becky Parry, Cathy Burnett, Professor Guy Merchant ...
    Literacy, Media, Technology considers the continued significance of popular culture forms such as postcards, film, television, games, virtual worlds and social media for educators. Following multiple pathways through technological innovation, the contributors reflect on the way in which digital and portable devices lead to new and emerging forms of reading, participating and creating. Rejecting ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Non-Fiction for the Literacy Hour

    Classroom Activities for Primary Teachers

    Edited by Guy Merchant, Huw Thomas ...
    This book offers practical guidance for teachers using the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stages 1 and 2, based on the six categories of non-fiction outlined in the Strategy. It gives an accessible introduction to the features of each of these text types.Many teachers now feel confident in working with fiction and poetry, whereas the non-fiction objectives have been more challenging. The book ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Undoing the Digital

    Sociomaterialism and Literacy Education

    by Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant ...
    Series series Literacies
    Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of literacy in the context of digital communication.Introducing a series of conceptual tools and examples,the book examines digital communication as an emergent interweaving of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Social Networking

    Redefining Communication in the Digital Age

    by Lemi Baruch, Pamela Kalbfleisch, Corey Liberman, Guy Merchant, Giuseppe Lugano, Zixue Tai, Zeynep Günel, Salvatore Scifo, Hayley Watson, Hans K. Meyer, Yifeng Hu, Pamela E. Walck ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age fulfills a pressing demand in social network literature by bringing together international experts from the fields of communication, new media technologies, marketing and advertising, public relations and journalism, business, and education.In this volume contributors traces online social networking practices across national borders, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • New Media in the Classroom

    Rethinking Primary Literacy

    by Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant ...
    ‘This an exciting publication that offers authentic approaches for educators to meet challenges of the literacy that students need in our evolving digital landscape.’Maureen Walsh, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University and Honorary Professor, The University of Sydney‘In this significant new text, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant foreground the affective, embodied and emergent nature of ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Picture Books for the Literacy Hour

    Activities for Primary Teachers

    by Guy Merchant, Huw Thomas ...
    First Published in 2000. Over the last 30 years, growth in the popularity and provision of books for children has been remarkable. The quality and inventiveness of children's authors and illustrators have led some to think of the picture book as a new art form. This book is a celebration of some of this work and it concentrates on the potential that picture books have for the teaching and learning ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Virtual Literacies

    Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People

    Edited by Guy Merchant, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh, Julia Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and will be a key resource for scholars, students and teachers, particularly those interested in digital ... Read more

    $76.99 USD